Martin Grayson: Adventures of a 'Devigner' : Videos

Animated Layout Panel (from the Blacklight Controls)

Martin Grayson — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 12:04:00 GMT

A video from Mike Parker, introducing the Animated Layout Panel control, found in Blacklight!

New Patient Journey Demonstrator at MSCUI.net

Martin Grayson — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 13:12:00 GMT

Hi all - great news, an updated version of the Patient Journey Demonstrator, the project I am currently working on, has been released. Check it out at http://www.mscui.net/PatientJourneyDemonstrator.

In this release we fixed lots of bugs, as well as added some new features around capturing input from the user. Below is a list of some of the new features and a video walkthrough of the whole demonstrator...

Presence Indicators

Presence and availability is a really important theme in health care. Everywhere where we display an employee’s name, we show their presence...

Updated Navigation Bar

The updated navigation bar allows you to move backwards and forwards through different demonstrators too.

Silverlight Patient Banner

We have incorporated the new Silverlight patient banner, from the Microsoft Health CUI controls library.

Menu Pearl

We have a new menu pearl that will allow you access to some of the new features within the demonstrator - in this release, the ability to add a consultation!

Creating a Consultation

In the primary care demonstrator, you can now create a new consultation, prescribe medications and record observations. You can then save this to the patient record and see the activity list and meds list update!

SNOMED Terminology Lookup

We have taken a subset of the SNOMED database of clinical terms, and made these searchable when creating a consultation. Try typing ‘Chest Pain’.

Search and Prescribe Medications

Search for medications and prescribe to see the meds list view update.

Styled Meds List View

We have styled the Microsoft Health CUI Meds List View control to fit in visually with the demonstrator.

Drug details on Patient Chart’s table view

We have added columns to the table view in Patient Charts for showing the drugs the patient is taking.

Visual Makeover of the ECG charts

We are looking at different ways of representing the deep zoom, digital ECG data (in the Secondary Care Demonstrator). One of those explorations was to make the full result set look more like the live ECG. This is an easter egg, and requires you to press F8 once, as soon as the Secondary Care Demonstrator has loaded!

Annotating the Angiogram

We have added a bunch of features that allow you to annotate the ECG video in the secondary care demonstrator...

Including a tool bar for measuring, inking, drawing marquees, zooming in and going full screen...

A collapsible list of the annotation history...

The ability to attach a text note to each annotation...

A frame by frame selector allowing you to see what annotations are already on the video and provide navigation to those frames...

Walkthrough Video

Check out the video below for a complete walkthrough of the demonstrator - or better still - check it out at http://www.mscui.net/PatientJourneyDemonstrator.

Download the video here.

Keep checking here for future Patient Journey Demonstrator updates :)

Martin

New Silverlight 2 Media Player for my blog!

Martin Grayson — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:36:00 GMT

UPDATE: Get the latest blog media player code from Blacklight, our new CodePlex project!

I have been meaning to start video blogging (vlogging) for some time. I think you can get stuff across far more simply that way. However, I hadn't gotten around to building a simple video player for hosting on my blog - well, problem solved. I finally got off my backside and made one.

I decided to make my first video blog on the media player itself, so sit back and enjoy.

Introducing the new Video Blog Media Player

You can download the video too.

The source code for the media player is available from www.codeplex.com/blacklight if you want to change / host it yourself. Thanks to Tim Sneath for giving the example on how to host Silverlight on your blog.

You could also point to where I have hosted the page (if you don't have hosting yourself) - however, I cannot guarantee the connection or that the MediaPlayer will be bug free.

The player is hosted on this page... http://mightymeaty.members.winisp.net/MediaPlayer/MediaPlayer.html

You need to pass in a source to activate the player - i.e. http://mightymeaty.members.winisp.net/MediaPlayer/MediaPlayer.html?mediaSource=http://silverlight.services.live.com/11264/vlog_200808/video.wmv.

Happy vlogging!

Martin

Real World WPF Videos: Designers and Developers working together?!

Martin Grayson — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 20:22:00 GMT

The latest installment of the Real World WPF series! This time round, Nick Page (DPE), Paul Tallet (MS Developer) and I shoot the breeze about how developers and designers work together in practice. We talk through some of our own experiences and demonstrate some techniques in VS2005 and Blend.

See it here on Channel 9.

Suggestions for a Real World WPF Video, please?

Martin Grayson — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:16:00 GMT

Since creating the first set of RWWPF (Real World WPF) videos, we had had loads of great suggestions on what else we could be showing. One of the re-occuring themes is about using Blend & WPF for LOB (Line of Business) applications - such as customer account systems, and internal tools.

So, I am adding the post to gather some feedback about what people are specifically interested in seeing. Are folk after 'How to make a data grid?' or 'How do I design and LOB for WPF?' or 'Why would I chose WPF for an LOB app?' or even 'I have an app, how do I make it look cool?'.

Whatever your thoughts, please reply to this post and we will try to capture as many suggestions in an LOB video as possible.

Thanks, Martin

Real World WPF Videos: BSF Showcase

Martin Grayson — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 15:20:00 GMT

Two very exciting announcements for Adventures today... the first - our Real World WPF Videos are now featured on Channel 9 - all of the links below. Secondly - the second in the series is now availble to download too.

The BSF Showcase (Building Schools for the Future) was an exciting look at enriching learning and school administration through multiple platform and device technologies. I was fortuanate enough to work on this project alongside Carrie Longson and Paul Tallett as a WPF Des/Dev. The 2 videos show a walkthrough the solution we developer, and a 'behind the scenes' look at some of the cool features we added.

Check these videos out now at...

Real World WPF Videos: BSF Showcase

Real World WPF Videos: BSF Showcase, Behind the Scenes

And you can find the first videos here...

Real World WPF Videos: Introduction to Blend (Part 1)

Real World WPF Videos: Introduction to Blend (Part 2)

Real World WPF Videos: Introduction to Blend (Part 3)

Real World WPF Videos: Introduction to Blend (Part 4)

Real World WPF Videos: Introduction to Blend

Martin Grayson — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:22:00 GMT

Well, it has been a little time since I last posted, and since, there has been a real flurry around WPF - at last, it is shipped! As is Windows Vista and Office 2007.

I have been busy on a number of projects, my learning from which I shall be sharing in the coming weeks. I have also been working with DPE (Developer and Platform Evangelism) to create a series of real world WPF Videos. The videos are focussed on real questions our customers are asking us about WPF and the tools they will need to get into to get the most from the platform.

The first video we shot was a 4 part introduction to using Microsoft Expression Blend (formerly Interactive Designer / Sparkle). Richard Godfrey and I walk through the new look tool and show you how to build a simple, but pretty, data driven application. I have posted the four links for the four parts below, as well as attached the data we used in the sample in case you want to have a crack yourself. It is a pretty simple scenario, so you may want to put your own twist and ideas in the mix.

Enjoy!

Introduction to Blend Part 1: Introduction

Introduction to Blend Part 2: Interface Overview

Introduction to Blend Part 3: 2D Build

Introduction to Blend Part 4: 3D & Effects

Martin Grayson: Adventures of a 'Devigner' : Videos

Animated Layout Panel (from the Blacklight Controls)

New Patient Journey Demonstrator at MSCUI.net

New Silverlight 2 Media Player for my blog!

Introducing the new Video Blog Media Player

Real World WPF Videos: Designers and Developers working together?!

More Video Tutorials

Suggestions for a Real World WPF Video, please?

Real World WPF Videos: BSF Showcase

Real World WPF Videos: Introduction to Blend